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Former judge jailed for sexual assaults was ‘manipulator of the highest order’, says survivor

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Gerard O’Brien was a teacher at south Dublin school when offences were committed

Gerard O’Brien resigned in January as a Circuit Court judge following his conviction of eight counts of sexual assault and one of attempted rape. Photograph: Collins Courts

At the Central Criminal Court on Friday, Mr Justice Alexander Owens imposed an effective sentence of five years and nine months on O’Brien but suspended 21 months, meaning a total four years in jail. One complainant said O’Brien sexually assaulted him while he was bringing him to the toilet in a pub. Praising the investigation led by Insp Jonathon Hayes of the Garda National Protective Service Bureau into the complaints against O’Brien, he said gardaí were “brilliant, caring and considerate”.

 

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